Development and potential analysis of Heuristic Evaluation for Courseware

Abstract

Heuristics Evaluation is commonly used in the evaluation process of websites and system and it has been expended from general interface evaluation to more specific evaluation such as computer games, virtual reality and shared workspace groupware. Developed heuristics evaluations of related multimedia based application were thoroughly analyzed based on specific criteria being used in the heuristics. As a conclusion, Heuristics Evaluation for Courseware (HECW) was proposed to be developed because of the important elements of courseware that need to be addressed in order to develop a usable and acceptable courseware. The development process of HECW involved five major steps; initial study, proposed heuristics, experts review, evaluation process and final heuristics. The discussions of this paper only focus on the fourth step which is evaluation process on HECW. At the end of this paper, a potential analysis for HECW using quantitative method is proposed.